Child Cannot Have More Than One Parent

Magnus Edwards

I'm trying to model our Business Processes in their appropriate Business Domains and have created the relevant objects in ProVision EA (v6.2.2); however I'm encountering issues when trying to map the parent-child links.

 

I've created Process Models for each of the various business domains and included the relevant objects on each model.

 

However after creating a Parent-Child link between a Business Process ("Process Credit Card") and the Domain ("Accept Payments - Retail Business"), I then get an error message when trying to link the same Business Process to a different Domain ("Accept Payments - Service Provider"), e.g.:

 

"Connecting Business Process: Process Credit Card will disassociate it from its current parent, Business Domain Accept Payments - Retail Business."

"Do you wish to continue with the connection?"

 

The same issue is apparent when trying to make an Activity ("Credit Card Processing") the child of more than one parent Business Process (e.g. "Process Credit Card" and "Process Credit Card Refund").

 

We have a strong emphasis on re-use of the Business Processes and Activities, so a way to be able to link child objects to more than one parent would be very much appreciated.

 

Thanks.

Andrew Sharp

Greetings Magnus,

 

Have you considered using Capabilities objects as 'containers' for your domains, processes and activities?  Their associations will allow you to include an individual process or activity in more than one Capability object.  The Capability modeler itself is parent/child, and does support multiple parentage.

 

Regards,

 

Andy